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Delta hints at job cuts as it retires the Boeing 777

14-05-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com

Delta Air Lines announced Thursday it will retire the long-range Boeing 777 aircraft and signaled plans to reduce headcount as the aviation industry continues to reel from coronavirus shutdowns."We are looking at all options to minimize potential furloughs and offset impact on our pilots through additional voluntary programs and cost-saving measures," said the memo from Delta senior vice president John Laughter, adding that the company was consulting its elected representatives and considering a

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Wisconsin governor says 'many more people' could get sick after court blocks lockdown

14-05-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com

Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, criticized the state Supreme Court ruling and urged social distancing.

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Experts warn about the 'brutal arithmetic' of applying herd immunity to humans

14-05-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com

Health professionals and officials continue to warn that there is no easy way out of the pandemic, particularly with parts of the U.S. beginning to ease lockdowns.

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'Humans are not herds': Why experts aren't hopeful for herd immunity from the coronavirus

14-05-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com

Health professionals and officials continue to warn that there is no easy way out of the pandemic, particularly with parts of the U.S. beginning to ease lockdowns.

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Donald Trump goes maskless to tour medical equipment facility

14-05-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com

* President and chief of staff were only ones without covering* Trump vows to replenish federal stockpileDonald Trump traveled to a medical equipment distribution facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, to tout a plan to replenish and upgrade the vital federal stockpile.According to the pool report, “the president and his entourage were led around by Owens and Minor employees, who explained their distribution system and the products they handle.“Trump and [White House chief

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The second Boeing 777X just flew for the first time – take a look at the enormous new flagship Boeing hopes will be its redemption

14-05-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com

The Boeing plane is the largest twin-engine jet to ever take to the skies and will carry more passengers than its predecessor while using less fuel.

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Pelosi moving swiftly on $3 trillion relief plan despite Dem gripes

14-05-2020 23:46 via politico.com

The House is expected to pass the bill Friday, though some progressives and moderates are currently withholding their support.

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Auto workers' tenuous return a ray of hope in jobs crisis

14-05-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com

Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is making a comeback: Tens of thousands of auto workers are returning to factories that have been shuttered since mid-March due to fears of spreading the coronavirus.With it comes about 133,000 U.S. workers pouring back into assembly plants that will open in the coming week, or just over half of the industry's workforce before the pandemic, according to estimates by The A

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Attorneys for killer of Ahmaud Arbery say he has a 'presumption of innocence' as Georgia case heats up

14-05-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com

Attorneys for Travis McMichael urge public not to rush judgment on the case; 911 reveals prior confrontation in neighborhood Security camera video released by an attorney briefly shows a man walking inside an open-framed home under construction on Feb. 11.

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House votes Friday on $3 trillion virus relief package

14-05-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com

US House Democrats will aim to pass a record $3 trillion coronavirus response package Friday to fund the fight against the pandemic and provide emergency payments to millions of American households.Pelosi unveiled the 1,815-page legislation only on Tuesday."We're putting our offer on the table," Pelosi said.

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Lindsey Graham pushes back on Trump's call to have Obama testify about Russia, Flynn

14-05-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com

Sen. Lindsey Graham said in a statement Thursday the Judiciary Committee would start hearings on the Russia investigation in June.

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Leaked email reveals Carnival CEO's message to employees after the company announced mass layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts

14-05-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com

Carnival Corp. is laying off workers and cutting pay in response to the impact of COVID-19, which has shut down the cruise industry since March.

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Try these traditional Chinese medicine practices for self-care during quarantine

14-05-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com

From qi gong to acupressure and herbal remedies, practitioners say these ancient wellness routines can provide stress relief at home during the pandemic.

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Dems form new super PAC to oust Lindsey Graham

14-05-2020 23:30 via politico.com

Organizers say they've already secured $1 million in commitments for the uphill South Carolina Senate race.

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Will Parents Ever See 51 Babies Trapped in Coronavirus Lockdown?

14-05-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com

MOSCOW—The babies are adorable, all pink and polished in white t-shirts with their names emblazoned on them, but more than 50 infants arrayed in row upon row of cribs in a Kyiv hotel are at the center of a huge scandal in Ukraine.They were born to surrogate mothers, and the parents who arranged for their births cannot get to them because of the global COVID-19 lockdown, according to a video originally posted in late April by a Kyiv-based company called BioTexCom. It has made a business&mda

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Thousands of kids may die of preventable causes during pandemic

14-05-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com

"We must not let mothers and children become collateral damage," UNICEF's executive director said.

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Black Republican prosecutor appointed to racially charged Ahmaud Arbery case

14-05-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com

Joyette M. Holmes was appointed as the fourth prosecutor in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man gunned down in February by two white men while on a jog in Georgia.

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Federal appeals court allows emoluments suit against Trump to move forward

14-05-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com

The ruling may set up a showdown at the Supreme Court, because another court in February dismissed a similar lawsuit filed by members of Congress.

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'Obamagate': Donald Trump calls for Barack Obama to testify and wants officials to be 'jailed for 50 years'

14-05-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com

Donald Trump has called for Barack Obama to be hauled before Congress, and for his predecessor's officials to be "jailed for 50 years". The US president has defined as "Obamagate" an episode involving the "unmasking" of his first national security adviser Michael Flynn after his name appeared in redacted form in intelligence reports related to Russia. He claims that, during the presidential transition period at the end of 2016, the Obama administration abused its power for political reasons in t

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U.S. Senate approves bill to pressure China over Uighur rights

14-05-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com

The U.S. Senate approved legislation on Thursday calling on President Donald Trump's administration to toughen its response to China's crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority, the latest push in Washington to punish China as Trump blames Beijing for worsening the coronavirus pandemic.It specifically singles out a member of China's powerful Politburo as responsible for "gross human rights violations" against them.The Republican-led Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, without a roll-call

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A black delivery driver filmed himself being trapped in an Oklahoma City neighborhood as an HOA president demanded to know why he was there

14-05-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com

Travis Miller, a delivery driver in Oklahoma City, says the HOA president demanded to know how he got into the gated community.

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'It's impossible': NY nursing homes fret about testing order

14-05-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com

As calls grow nationwide for mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homes, New York facilities are sounding alarms about the state's ambitious new demand to test roughly 185,000 workers twice a week.Administrators worry there won't be enough kits for an estimated 370,000 tests a week on workers at nursing homes and other adult care facilities, nearly double the total of tests done statewide now on people in all walks of life.The homes also have questioned who will cover an expense estimated ar

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Army Makes Major Changes to Cadet Summer Training and Field Exercises

14-05-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com

U.S. Army Cadet Command has ordered that cadet summer training, usually held at Fort Knox, will be significantly adjusted.

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Fox News' Bret Baier says Dr. Bright testimony may be 'politically damaging' for Trump

14-05-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com

Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted federal official who was formerly leading coronavirus vaccine development, on Thursday delivered testimony before Congress that, according to Fox News' Bret Baier, may be "politically damaging" for President Trump.Bright testified before Congress after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging "cronyism" at the Department of Health and Human Services after being removed as director of its Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. In addition to urging th

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Questions for Ambassador Cui Tiankai

14-05-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com

Authors’ Note: On May 6, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the United States. The article contained a series of factual misrepresentations and omissions, while painting a picture of Communist China as a victim of slander by those who “always blame” the regime for the spread of COVID-19. Cui Tiankai claimed such unfair accusations were a “burden” on China and were “undercutting” the international struggle against

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‘A great embarrassment’: records offer insight into Ahmaud Arbery suspect

14-05-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com

Gregory McMichael lost his power of arrest in 2006 after failing to complete sufficient basic law enforcement training Gregory McMichael, the white retired law enforcement officer who helped chase down and kill Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, failed to complete sufficient basic law enforcement training for years, a deficiency that led to him losing his power of arrest.McMichael, who worked as an investigator in the Brunswick judicial circuit district attorney’s

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Trump is blaming China for coronavirus even as he employs the same authoritarian tactics as Xi Jinping

14-05-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com

"Trump is borrowing from an autocrats' playbook used not only by Xi but by Bolsonaro, Putin, and others too," an authoritarianism expert said.

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Former FBI senior official: James Comey politicized the FBI in Flynn case

14-05-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com

"There's a number of behaviors in Comey that ... have really cast the FBI in the worst possible light," ex-FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said on Yahoo's "Skullduggery" podcast.

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Armed militia members, other protesters demand 'freedom' from Michigan stay-home order

14-05-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com

The anti-lockdown gathering at the state Capitol was smaller than previous ones, which drew widespread national attention.

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States Pressured to Give Coronavirus Lawsuit Immunity to Hospitals, Docs, and Nurses

14-05-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com

By Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health NewsCoronavirus patients and their families who believe a doctor, nurse, hospital, or other provider made serious mistakes during their care may face a new hurdle if they try to file medical malpractice lawsuits.Under pressure from health provider organizations, governors in Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois, and about a dozen other states have ordered that most providers be shielded from civil—and, in some cases, criminal—lawsuits over medical treatment d

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EU top diplomat wants independent probe into coronavirus origins

14-05-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com

The European Union's foreign policy chief called on China on Thursday to contribute significantly to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and said there should be an independent scientific investigation into the origins of the pandemic.In a guest column in Friday's edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Josep Borrell said China should act to help protect the world from future pandemics."An independent scientific investigation of the origin of this pandemic is also necessa

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Reward for return of Colorado woman who went missing on Mother's Day increased to $200,000 as FBI join search

14-05-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com

A woman who disappeared while riding her bike on Mother's Day is still missing, and the FBI is joining the search.Suzanne Morphew, 49, of Colorado, disappeared on Sunday while riding her bike, triggering a major search effort by more than 100 people and numerous dogs.

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Virgin Galactic is looking for 2 pilots to fly its spaceflight missions. Here's what it takes to be the next closest thing to an astronaut.

14-05-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com

Virgin Galactic pilots will have the unique opportunity of flying, essentially, into space, a job formerly reserved only for NASA astronauts.

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Suspect in Ahmaud Arbery killing called 911 days before about alleged trespasser

14-05-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com

On the night of Feb. 11, Travis McMichael said he was driving his pickup truck past a construction site when he spotted someone he deemed suspicious, according to audio of a 911 call.

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Michael Flynn 'unmasking' explained: How Trump is trying to link Joe Biden to 'Obamagate' conspiracy

14-05-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com

A pair of Senate Republican chairmen earlier this week released a document about the "unmasking" of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn that they says raises questions about whether Obama administration officials, including former Vice President Joe Biden, sought to "entrap" Mr Flynn and other incoming Trump administration officials in 2016 and 2017.The National Security Agency (NSA) document released by Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson and Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley

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German coronavirus reproduction rate remains below critical threshold

14-05-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com

The reproduction rate for the coronavirus in Germany remained below the key threshold of 1 according to both the conventional calculation method and a new, less volatile measure, the Robert Koch Institute for disease control said on Thursday.This figure includes spikes caused by individual hotspots and a rise to over 1 at the weekend as a result of an outbreak of the coronavirus at slaughterhouses in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia that caused alarm.The R factor has been used by the governme

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'They threw us into chaos': Wisconsin lockdown ruling is latest in partisan war

14-05-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com

Wisconsin supreme court ruling striking down Democratic governor’s stay-at-home order underscores division in the stateA conservative majority on the Wisconsin supreme court struck down a stay-at-home order from the state’s Democratic governor on Wednesday, further illustrating the remarkable amount of power Republicans have in the state and the way they have been able to curb the authority of their Democratic rivals.The Wisconsin decision is the most significant legal victory for co

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Wisconsin bars packed after court lifts stay-at-home order

14-05-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com

"It's been kinda boring sitting in my house, I love my fiancee but there's only so much we can handle from each other," one customer says.

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Hopes of a new witness dashed in case of slain Georgia black jogger

14-05-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com

Hopes of finding a new witness in the case of an unarmed black jogger whose fatal shooting in Georgia triggered a national outcry were dashed Thursday afternoon.The note found at the memorial of Ahmaud Arbery reading "I should have stopped them" was left by a person "expressing their condolences" and not a new witness in the case of the jogger who was shot after being chased by an ex-cop and his son, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said in a Twitter post.The community and the family of

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Walt Disney World and unions agree on safeguards for returning to work

14-05-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com

Walt Disney Coand unions representing workers at Florida's Walt Disney World have reached an agreement on safeguards to protect employees from coronavirus, a union statement said on Thursday, removing one of the company's hurdles to reopening its popular theme parks.The measures include social distancing practices, increased cleaning and mandatory masks for workers and guests, according to a statement from the Service Trades Council Union (STCU), which represents about 43,000 workers at Walt Dis

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Lindsey Graham announces Senate Judiciary investigation into origins of Mueller probe

14-05-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com

Apparently one Senate investigation just wasn't enough.On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.) announced his committee would be opening an investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI investigation into possible ties between President Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. Graham's announcement comes just a few weeks after the Senate Intelligence Committee released its own report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, and months after the Department of Justice released i

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Trump ally says making Obama testify would 'open up a can of worms' and set a 'bad precedent'

14-05-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com

Lindsey Graham will not try to force former President Barack Obama to testify about an investigation into Russia's 2016 election meddling that included Trump campaign officials even though Donald Trump called on the Senate Judiciary chairman to do just that.The president is pushing a conspiracy theory he has dubbed "Obamagate," a complex web of related and semi-related probes, actions by then-Obama administration officials and other things he says was a plot to end his chances in 2016 then cripp

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Richard Burr: Senate intelligence chief steps down for FBI probe

14-05-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com

The Republican is suspected of using privileged details on coronavirus risks for insider trading.

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Rep. Steve Scalise on House Democrats pushing $3T coronavirus relief bill

14-05-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com

House Democrats unveil the coronavirus bill estimated to cost $3T, in largest stimulus package yet; reaction and analysis from House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.

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Feinstein was also questioned by FBI on coronavirus stock trades — but Loeffler won't say if she has been

14-05-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) spokesperson has confirmed she answered questions from the FBI over stock trades her husband made before the U.S. markets took a dive due to the coronavirus pandemic — but Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is refusing to say if she was contacted as well.Reports emerged earlier this year Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) sold stocks while he was receiving briefings on the coming COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, and federal agents have now seized his cellphone. Numerous oth

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Trump Hints at Removing Foreign Manufacturers from F-35 Supply Chain

14-05-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com

Trump referenced the problems with Turkey's participation in the F-35 program.

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Indianapolis Detective Suspended for Mocking Man Just Killed by Police

14-05-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com

An Indianapolis detective caught on video joking about the death of a 21-year-old fatally shot by police after a high-speed chase has been suspended by the department, a police spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast.The detective, whose name has not been released, arrived at the scene of the May 6 shooting of Dreasjon “Sean” Reed—which was apparently broadcast on Facebook Live—and can be heard saying on video: “Looks like it’s going to be a closed casket, h

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'I should have stopped them': Unsigned note raises more questions over Ahmaud Abery's death

14-05-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com

A cryptic, unsigned note was left on a card at the memorial for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was killed while jogging by a white father and son who attempted to stop him at gunpoint.Local news station WJXT first reported on the anonymous note, which reads "Ahmaud - I am so sorry. I should have stopped them. I am so sorry."

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Sanofi says COVID-19 vaccine will be available worldwide simultaneously

14-05-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com

Sanofi will ensure that a potential vaccine against COVID-19, if approved, reaches all regions of the world at the same time, the chairman of the French drugmaker said on Thursday."There will be no particular advance given to any country," Serge Weinberg told France 2 television.Sanofi operates 73 industrial locations in 32 countries.

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'Cytokine storms' that cause the body to attack itself might be a key factor in deadly coronavirus cases

14-05-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com

Chinese researchers found that an aggressive immune response causes coronavirus cases to go from mild to severe.

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